This week in movies you missed: The movies you see in theaters no longer “flicker.” Your favorite summer drive-in is running a fundraiser to stay open. Your 18-year-old nephew is posting videos to YouTube and Vimeo and calling himself a “filmmaker.”
What do all these phenomena have in common? They’re symptoms of the seismic shift from “film” film to digital film. This documentary from Christopher Kenneally explains.
What You Missed
How will the film industry change when “films” are no longer shot on film, edited on film, screened on film or preserved on film? How close are we to that point? How did we get here? Is it the dawning of a glorious new age, or a dark moment in the history of a century-old art form?
Kenneally, making his feature directorial debut with this 2012 doc, doesn’t answer that last question. Nor does its narrator, Keanu Reeves. Instead, they interview a slew of filmmakers, including some of Hollywood’s most prominent directors: Martin Scorsese (pictured), James Cameron, the Wachowskis, David Fincher, Christopher Nolan, Steven Soderbergh, George Lucas and more.
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